St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-01
GAY Mr.. RHODUS.
He Leaves st. Paul and Goes to
Chicago,
WHERE HE HAS LOTS OF FUN
Among Other Things Pounding a Negro
and Borrowing a Strange
Baby.
Special to the Globe.


CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-The nOtoriety of
st. Paul'S own Alfred Rhodus, as a re-
cent issue of the GLOBE terms him, did
not stop when he had left the shadows
OF the Pacific coast or the SANITY city
behind him. The fair Alfred has for
the past few days been showing the
people of Chicago of what kind of ma
teriai he is made, and recounting his
deeds of the recent past,
which are SubStantiated by
the newspaper reports of his doings in
the far West. He arrived here some
days ago and stopped at the Palmer,
when he changed his quarters and is
now stopping at a prominent family
hotel on Monroe street. When he first
came here. Rhodus was carrying
roll of bills as big as his
arm, but few misplaced
bets of large amounts at the races soon
brought his pile down to more moder-
ate size, although he still takes pride in
flashing about two dozen 500 bills. The
next day after RhOdus' advent he was
joined by a shrewd looking young fell
low, who came through from Portland,
Or, and who, it is said, was
with him on the coast.aa The newcomer
is very reticent, and has nothing to say
either about himself or RhoduS or of
their doingS. The other evening
RhoduS went out to have a little fun
with the boys, and after reaching that
blissful condition when man imagines
he OWNS the earth commenced to
thump the negro porter in Frank Glov-
er'S saloon on Clark street with the
butt end of his revolver, also leaving a
mark on the bar which will remain for
many day after the dOcile youth has
departed. Just as he was beginning to
think that he had captured the place he
was seized by a man who appeared upon
the scene at that moment and his gun
taken away. RhOduS had had
GLORY AND GORE ENOUGH
for one night and being of rather good
disposition generally did not or could
not offer much resistance, but at this
juncture his friend, who had been in
another part of the room and had not
witnessed the first fracaS, stepped
up and was about to Law his
fist on the intruder in. anything
but gentle manner, but upon that in
diyldua1 revealing detectives star, he
very sensibly desiSted and changed his
tactics by helping the detectives lead
Rhodus out and down the street to the
central station. If was not his plan to
let the frey young man from the North
west go behind the bars if talking would
keep him out, and as he did not
appear to be much the worse
for wear the detectives Immediately re-
ceived the greatest game of talk they
had been treated to for many day. 1t
worked all right and Rhodus didn't go
in, and the next day went down and got
out his revolver, which is the latest
improved Smith d WeSSon thirty
eight calibre. Yesterday Rhodus was
out again seeing the sights
with companion and upon returning to
his hotel discovered a baby carriage in
the hall containing an infant of about
twelve months. He Immediately con-
Guided to resume his travels. and push
ing the carriage out onto the walk COM
menced to perambulate the principal
streets with the air of man
just elected to congress. He
took the youngster the rounds pretty
thoroughly, and the kid remained in
good humor for about two hours, until it
began to get hungry, when Rhodus,
with the remark, rs the baby hungry?
Well, I'm sorry for you, but
AMT BUILT THAT WAY"
made up his mind that the proper place
AOh O0tDS hQo Will
and took the little fellow home. He
was met in the corridor by the half dis
tracted mother, who thought her off
spring had been kidnapped, and the
way the young man was raked down
was a caution. He insisted that
1t was a mistake, and said that he
thought it was his own little child, who
was about the same age and bore a
striking resemblance to the one he had
appropriated. The clerk of the hotel,
who had been out looking for the lost
baby, had returned about the
same time as RhOdus, and
upon hearing his explanation
told the mother that he thought Mr..
Rhodus' mistake an eXcusable one, as
he did not think he saw his own baby
often enough to recognize it when he
did run across it outside of its mothers
arms. This matter was very quietly and
amicably settled. although while in
his cups, Rhodus is rather dangerous
man to fool with, still he seems to stand
well and have good credit with certain
class of people who stand well in Chi
cagO. RhoduS and his friend leave to-
morrow night for New York on the Bal
timore & Ohio, from whence they will
go to England for couple of months,
having purchased their passage tickets
to-day.